--- title: "Effectiveness and Safety of a Flexible Family Visitation Model for Delirium Prevention in Adult Intensive Care Units: a Cluster-randomized, Crossover Trial (The ICU Visits Study)" nct_id: NCT02932358 overall_status: COMPLETED phase: NA sponsor: Hospital Moinhos de Vento study_type: INTERVENTIONAL primary_condition: Delirium countries: Brazil canonical_url: "https://parkinsonspathways.com/agent/trials/NCT02932358.md" clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02932358" ct_last_update_post_date: 2018-11-23 last_seen_at: "2026-05-12T07:31:47.585Z" source: ClinicalTrials.gov (mirrored, no enrichment) --- # Effectiveness and Safety of a Flexible Family Visitation Model for Delirium Prevention in Adult Intensive Care Units: a Cluster-randomized, Crossover Trial (The ICU Visits Study) **Official Title:** Effectiveness and Safety of a Flexible Family Visitation Model for Delirium Prevention in Adult Intensive Care Units: a Cluster-randomized, Crossover Trial **NCT ID:** [NCT02932358](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02932358) ## Key Facts - **Status:** COMPLETED - **Phase:** NA - **Study Type:** INTERVENTIONAL - **Target Enrollment:** 1650 - **Lead Sponsor:** Hospital Moinhos de Vento - **Collaborators:** Ministry of Health, Brazil - **Conditions:** Delirium - **Start Date:** 2017-04-28 - **Completion Date:** 2018-06-22 - **CT.gov Last Update:** 2018-11-23 ## Brief Summary A cluster-randomized crossover trial involving adult ICU patients, family members, and ICU professionals will be conducted. Forty medical-surgical Brazilian ICUs with visiting hours \<4.5 h/day will be randomly assigned to either a restrictive family visitation model (RFVM) (visits according to local policies) or a flexible family visitation model (FFVM) (visitation during 12 consecutive hours per day) at a 1:1 ratio. After enrollment and follow-up of 25 patients, each ICU will be switched over to the other visitation model, until 25 more patients per site are enrolled and followed. The primary outcome will be the cumulative incidence of delirium among ICU patients, measured twice a day using the Confusion Assessment Method for the ICU. Secondary outcome measures will include daily hazard of delirium, ventilator-free days at day 7, any ICU-acquired infections, ICU length of stay, and all-cause hospital mortality among the patients; symptoms of anxiety and depression and satisfaction among the family members; and prevalence of symptoms of burnout among the ICU professionals. Tertiary outcomes will include need for antipsychotic agents and/or mechanical restraints, coma-free days at day 7, unplanned loss of invasive devices, and ICU-acquired pneumonia, urinary tract infection, or bloodstream infection among the patients; self-perception of involvement in patient care among the family members; and satisfaction among the ICU professionals. ## Eligibility - **Minimum age:** 18 Years - **Sex:** ALL - **Healthy Volunteers:** No ``` Inclusion Criteria: * For ICUs: medical-surgical ICUs of of public and philanthropic Brazilian hospitals with restricted visitation policies(\<4.5 hours/day). * For Patients: Age ≥ 18 years, admission to the intensive care unit. * For Patient's Family Members: nearest relative of the ICU patient recruited in the study and consent to participate in the study. * For ICU Workers: ICU workers that assist patients in the ICU during the daytime for at least 20 hours per week and consent to participate in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * For ICUs: ICUs with structural or organizational impediments to extended visitation. * For Patients: Subjects with coma (Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale -4 or -5) lasting \> 96 hours from the moment of first evaluation for recruitment, or delirium at the baseline (positive Confusion Assessment Method for ICU) will be excluded. Individuals with cerebral death, aphasia, severe hearing deficit, a prediction of ICU length of stay \< 48 hours, exclusively palliative treatment, or without a familiar member able to participate in extended ICU visits and those who are prisioners, unlikely to survive \>24hs, re-admitted to the ICU after enrolment in the study will also be excluded. * For Patient's Family Members: Another ICU patient's relative enrolled in the study; family members who don't speak Portuguese; Difficulty to answer the self-administered questionnaires (e.g.: illiteracy) * For ICU Workers: ICU workers who have a prediction of withdrawal of ICU care activities \>15 days during the study will be excluded. ``` ## Arms - **Flexible Family Visitation Model (FFVM)** (ACTIVE_COMPARATOR) — In the FFVM, two or fewer family members will be allowed to visit the patient for up to 12 consecutive hours each day. In addition to family visitation, patients will be allowed to receive social visits in specific time intervals (according local ICU regulation). To have access to the FFVM, family members of ICU patients will have to attend a structured meeting at ICU in which they will receive orientations about the ICU environment, common ICU treatments, rehabilitation and basic infection control practices, multidisciplinary work at ICU and palliative treatment. Social visitors will not be required to attend the structured meeting. - **Restrictive Family Visitation Model (RFVM)** (ACTIVE_COMPARATOR) — In the RFVM, patients will be allowed to receive restricted visits according routine ICU practices, but respecting the maximum limit of 4.5 hours of visitation per day. Visitors will not be required to attend the structured meeting. The length of ICU visits will be similar to those of social visits in the FFVM. ## Interventions - **Flexible Family Visitation Model (FFVM)** (OTHER) — Visitation to ICU patients allowed during the period of 12 consecutive hours per day. - **Restrictive Family Visitation Model (RFVM)** (OTHER) — Visitation to ICU patients allowed during intermittent periods according local ICU regulation. ## Primary Outcomes - **Incidence of Delirium among ICU patients** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from enrollment until ICU discharge, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ — Incidence of delirium will be verified by trained intensive care professionals with the confusion assessment method for the ICU 2 times per day. ## Secondary Outcomes - **Daily hazard of delirium among ICU patients** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from enrollment until ICU discharge, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ - **Antipsychotic use among ICU patients** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from enrollment until ICU discharge, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ - **Need of mechanical restraints among ICU patients** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from randomization until ICU discharge, or death, or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ - **Coma-free days at day 7 among ICU patients** _(time frame: During the first 7 days following patient enrollment.)_ - **Unplanned loss of invasive devices among ICU patients** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from randomization until ICU discharge, or death, or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ - **Mechanical ventilation-free days at day 7 among ICU patients** _(time frame: During the first 7 days following patient enrollment.)_ - **Any ICU-acquired infection among ICU patients** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from enrollment until ICU discharge, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ - **ICU-acquired pneumonia among ICU patients** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from enrollment until ICU discharge, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ - **ICU-acquired bloodstream infection among ICU patients** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from enrollment until ICU discharge, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ - **ICU-acquired urinary tract infection among ICU patients** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from enrollment until ICU discharge, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ - **ICU length of stay among ICU patients** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from enrollment until ICU discharge, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ - **All-cause hospital mortality among ICU patients** _(time frame: During hospital stay (from enrollment until hospital discharge, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ - **Symptoms of anxiety among family members** _(time frame: IOn the day of patient discharge from ICU, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up.)_ - **Symptoms of depression among family members** _(time frame: On the day of patient discharge from ICU, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up.)_ - **Satisfaction among among family members** _(time frame: On the day of patient discharge from ICU, or death or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up.)_ - **Prevalence of Burnout Syndrome among ICU professionals** _(time frame: It will be measured in two moments: within 15 days prior to the first ICU intervention and between the 15th and 30th days of the period in which no patient will be enrolled.)_ - **Satisfaction with the current ICU visiting policy among ICU professionals** _(time frame: It will be measured between the 15th and 30th days of the period in which no patient will be enrolled.)_ - **Any adverse event related to ICU visitation** _(time frame: During ICU stay (from randomization until ICU discharge, or death, or a maximum of 30 days of follow-up))_ ## Locations (33) - Hospital de Urgência e Emergência de Rio Branco, Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil - Fundação Hospital Adriano Jorge, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil - Hospital Geral Clériston Andrade, Feira de Santana, Estado de Bahia, Brazil - Hospital INCARDIO, Feira de Santana, Estado de Bahia, Brazil - Hospital de Urgências de Goiânia, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil - Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Santa Casa de Misericórdia de São João Del Rei, São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil - Hospital do Caâncer de Cascavel (UOPECCAN), Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil - Hospital Universitário do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE), Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil - Hospital Universitário Alcides Carneiro, Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil - Hospital Universitário Lauro Wanderley, João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil - Hospital Regional do Baixo Amazonas, Santarém, Pará, Brazil - Hospital Universitário de Petrolina, Petrolina, Pernambuco, Brazil - Hospital Agamenom Magalhães, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil - Hospital Universitário da Universidade Federal do Piauí, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil - Hospital Geral de Nova Iguaçú, Nova Iguaçu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Hospital Deoclécio Marques de Lucena, Parnamirim, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil - Hospital Tacchini, Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Hospital São Camilo de Esteio, Esteio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Hospital da Cidade de Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Hospital Dom Vicente Scherer, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Hospital Mãe de Deus, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceiçaão, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - 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